Eric Liu is a fellow at the New America Foundation and a contributor to Slate and MSNBC. A former speechwriter for President Clinton, he founded The Next Progressive, an acclaimed journal of opinion, and edited the anthology Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation.
Eric Liu has written a powerful memoir, a memoir that renders the Asian American experience with a depth and a passion reminiscent of Richard Wright's Black Boy. It is a major contribution to the literature that defines what it means to be an American. -Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A unique-and uniquely American-memoir, suffused with smarts, elegance, and warmth. -Time More than a reminiscence of growing up Asian in America, it is an homage to Liu's Chineseness, and to America. -Los Angeles Times Wonderfully spirited. . . . Remarkable in its adamant refusal to buy into the party line of identity politics . . . Liu is fair to all sides of any issues he discusses. -The New York Times Book Review